The phrase "rated lower" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that has been ranked or evaluated with a lower score or level compared to other similar things. Example: After conducting thorough research, the product was rated lower than its competitors due to its higher price point.
Results indicate that patients receiving this intervention reported slightly decreased levels of depression at 1-week follow-up and were rated lower on clinician-rated global severity of symptoms than patients in the assessment-only condition.
In consultations where physicians had over-rated patient satisfaction with medical aspects, physicians were rated lower on both Attentiveness and Empathy (P<0.001).
"Too often material gets rated lower than it should be".
But since then, three games have rated higher than last year's and three have rated lower.
Payne, who plays for the Boston Bulldogs, is staying with the MetroStars, but he is apparently rated lower than Grafer.
The judges gave him tepid scores in Monday's male dance-off, but a scandal-plagued former Dallas Cowboy and George Hamilton's glossy son rated lower.
Investigators found that most of the money paid under the demonstration program went to "average-performing plans" rated lower than the benchmarks set by Congress.
Matt Robb, of the consultancy Parthenon, says: "We have done work for universities that want to know which universities rated lower than they are have good people who are ripe for poaching".
According to the Financial Research Corporation, based in Boston, mutual funds that received four or five stars from Morningstar in 1999 enjoyed net inflows of $224 billion for that year, while those rated lower suffered net outflows of $132 billion.
Even so, this rating could come as some surprise to London and Edinburgh, who are both rated lower – fourth and fifth respectively – below Ludlow (2nd) and Melton Mowbray (3rd).
But some of the most surprising recent polls show that Mr Obama is rated lower by voters on how he would handle the economy than is Mr McCain, who has admitted that he doesn't know much about the subject.
